Winter weather advisory across region; wintry mix could accumulate

Officials in Winston-Salem and Greensboro are urging people to travel only if necessary after a mixture of snow, sleet and freezing rain led to slick roads and numerous crashes across the region.

The entire area is under a winter weather advisory until 11 a.m. Saturday despite the precipitation ending around 4 p.m. Most areas saw less than an inch of total accumulation.

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WXII's traffic center has received more than two dozen crash reports on major roadways since 1 p.m. None of the crashes have been serious, though.

The Department of Transportation reported traffic moving under 30 mph on much of Interstate 40 from Winston-Salem to Raleigh and Interstate 85 from Charlotte to Durham.

Even though the precipitation stopped falling, road conditions will continue to remain treacherous through Saturday morning due to the ineffectiveness of salt below 20 degrees or so, NCDOT officials said.

The storm has caused only a handful of power outages. Light winds will help keep the number of outages down, National Weather Service officials said.

Some 1,600 Duke Energy customers lost power in Dobson Friday morning due to a substation failure. They didn't get power back until after 3 p.m.

Many school systems dismissed school early Friday, and some canceled all Saturday events as well. (Latest closings - Web users | Latest closings - mobile users) Some Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school buses had to travel so slowly that students were still on buses some three hours after an early dismissal, school officials said.

Some non-thunderstorm wind damage was reported in Ashe, Grayson and Watauga counties. Wind gusts reached 66 mph at both the Ashe County Airport and the Boone Inc. Airport.

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